Ad Reinhardt Book

Foreword by Dore Ashton

Introduction: 'Starting over at the beginning'

1. 'Every person is a special kind of artist'

2. Cartoons and Communists

'Hack'

Public Art and Public Media

Comrade Cubist

The Origins of 'Art-as-Art'

Comrade Ad

3. 'Painting-Reason' and 'Picture-Purpose'

Abstract Art for Society's Sake

The Inconsolable Polymath

Collage as Destruction

'Painting is more than the scum of its pots': Beyond Formalism

4. The Intellectual Gift of the Post-Historic Artist

'Blue in art is blue. Red in art is red. Yellow in art is yellow. Dark gray in art is not dark gray': Aesthetics and Indeterminacy

'How to make Modern Art in America: Fifteen Years Later'

Perfection and the End of Art

Neither Secular nor Sacred

Systems of Strife

5. 'An Invasion of the Ultimate'

Jamming

Rules

Convictions

Realignment

6. 'Every Dogma has its Day'

'The re-reformation of formalism'

'A dark flame, fog forming in the unformed': Responsive Eyes

Unfinished Business

The Success of Failure

7. Reinhardt and the Art of the Sixties

Empty Devices, Dead Diagrams and Invisible Spectacles

Trailer

8. Political Art and Political Power

Scepticism

The Artist as Citizen

Art and Resistance

9. Reinhardt's Difficult Freedom

Appendix

References

Bibliography

Artist's Chronology

Acknowledgements

Index